2019-01-29
“Japanese fonts 02: Handwritten” is here.
Font authors often change the URLs to avoid the direct links. They want to show their messages (license, thought) to users first.
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The character “目” in hitnone is clearer.
These fonts include 2965 kanji characters (JIS Level 1) and 3390 kanji characters (JIS Level 2).
Source Han Sans is an open source Pan-CJK font made by Adobe and Google. Adobe call it “Source Han Sans” (English name) or “源ノ角ゴシック” (Japanese name, “Gen no Kaku Gothic”). Google call it “Noto Sans”. Noto means “No more tofu”.
Website: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/tree/release
License: OFL-1.1
Download: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/blob/release/SubsetOTF/SourceHanSansJP.zip
Source Han Serif is an open source Pan-CJK font made by Adobe and Google. Adobe call it “Source Han Serif” (English name) or “源ノ明朝” (Japanese name, “Gen no Mincho”). Google call it “Noto Serif”. Noto means “No more tofu”.
Website: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/tree/release
License: OFL-1.1
Download: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/blob/release/SubsetOTF/SourceHanSerifJP.zip
GenEi fonts are modified “Gen no Kaku Gothic”.
Website: http://okoneya.jp/font/
License: OFL-1.1Go to the Website and click “ダウンロード”.
Alphabets and numbers = proportional. Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji = fixed.
Alphabets, numbers, Hiragana, Katakana = proportional. Kanji = fixed.
IPA stands for Information-technology Promotion Agency. It is a related organization of the Japanese Government. Note: IPA fonts are not for phonetic characters.
Website: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/old/ipafont/download.html#en
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/old/ipafont/download.html#en
IPAex fonts are combined fonts. Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji = fixed IPA fonts. alphabets, numbers = proportional IPA fonts.
Website: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/node17#en
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/ipa_font_license_v1-html#en
A Modified IPA font.
Website: https://launchpad.net/takao-fonts
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/old/ipafont/download.html#enCheck “Downloads” in the right.
MigMix is a combined font that uses “M+ font” and “IPA Gothic”.
Website: http://mix-mplus-ipa.osdn.jp/migmix/
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/old/ipafont/download.html#en
Download: https://osdn.jp/projects/mix-mplus-ipa/releases/p11182MigMix 1P, MigMix 2P = proportional fonts. MigMix 1M, MigMix 2M = fixed fonts.
IPA Mona is a modified IPA font. It is good for Japanese ASCII art. Most Japanese ASCII art is designed for MS P Gothic. IPA Mona and MS P Gothic are the same width.
Website: http://www.geocities.jp/ipa_mona/
License: You need to distribute them with the IPA certified softwares.Click “opfc-ModuleHP-1.1.1_withIPAMonaFonts-1.0.8.tar.gz” in the page. IPA Mona fonts are included in opfc-ModuleHP-/fonts/ .
“Motoya L Cedar” is a Gothic font made by the Motoya Corporation. Google Android used it for the Japanese font. This font is designed for mobile machines.
Download: https://sourceforge.net/p/android-x86/frameworks_base/ci/marshmallow-x86/tree/data/fonts/MTLc3m.ttf
License: Apache LicenseGo to the Download page and click “download it”.
This font is designed for mobile machines.
Download: https://sourceforge.net/p/android-x86/frameworks_base/ci/marshmallow-x86/tree/data/fonts/MTLmr3m.ttf
License: Apache LicenseGo to the Download page and click “download it”.
UmePlus Gothic is a combined font. Hiragana, Katakana, alphabets, numbers = M+ font. Kanji = Ume font.
Website: http://linuxplayers.g1.xrea.com/modified_fonts_01.html
License: You can redistribute it and modify it freely.
Yasashisa Gothic is a modified IPA/M+ font. “yasashisa” means “gentleness” in Japanese.
Website: http://www.fontna.com/
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/ipaexfont/download.html#en
Download: http://www.fontna.com/blog/379/Go to the Download page and click this image.
Yasashisa Gothic Tegaki is a modified IPA/M+ font. “yasashisa” means “gentleness” in Japanese. “tegaki” means “handwritten”.
Website: http://www.fontna.com/
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/ipaexfont/download.html#en
Download: http://fontna.com/freefont/?p=40Go to the Download page and click this image.
Yasashisa Gothic is a modified IPA/M+ font. “yasashisa” means “gentleness” in Japanese. This font is made for Japanese manga (comics).
Website: http://www.fontna.com/
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/ipaexfont/download.html#en
Download: http://www.fontna.com/blog/1122/Go to the Download page and click this image.
Kowai Mincho is a modified IPA font. “kowai” means “horrible” in Japanese. “mincho” is a kind of a serif typeface.
Website: http://www.fontna.com/
License: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/ipaexfont/download.html#en
Download: http://www.fontna.com/blog/1371/Go to the Download page and click this image.
A bitmap style font. PixelMplus12 is a truetype font. It is converted from M+ BITMAP FONTS. PixelMplus12 is based on M+ 12x12 bitmap characters, and PixelMplus10 is based on M+ 10x10 bitmap characters.
Website: http://itouhiro.hatenablog.com/entry/20130602/font
Download: https://osdn.jp/projects/mix-mplus-ipa/releases/p12907
License: You can redistribute it and modify it freely.Go to the Download page and click the latest “PixelMplus” (e.g. PixelMplus-20130602.zip).